Word: subway
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Both are avid baseball fans--though Noah was elated and Eliah frustrated at the result of this year's Subway Series...
Such are Nick's bona fides as a pulse taker of New York City, where the proud but aging New York Yankees will face a bent-for-glory New York Mets team for the city's, not to mention baseball's, championship. So tell us, Nick, what's this Subway Series all about? What has it done to the Apple's heart...
...year eludes Nick, but it doesn't escape Robert W. Creamer, who's had a few lunches at Gallagher's since 1956, when he covered the last Subway Series for a struggling young rag called SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. "I did that one and '55," says Creamer, biographer of both Babe and Casey (Ruth and Stengel, for the baseball illiterati). "Back then a Subway Series was of a piece--there were 13 of them in New York between 1921 and '56. The Yankees were playing the Giants, or then later they were playing the Dodgers. It was a rivalry renewed, and players...
...Stengel had switched to managing and changed into pinstripes. He won his first of five Subway Series as a skipper that year, when his Yankees beat the Dodgers four games to one, and his last in '56, when the Bombers beat the Bums 4-3. The Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles in 1958, but in 1962 Queens got the Mets. And who was the first manager of the Amazin's? Stengel, tying things up nicely...
...overlook above a park. Groups of people sat with children while others wandered in and out of the play areas. Beneath the stairs there appeared to be some kind of workshop where men were hammering the pieces of a large machine - perhaps of the escalator for the nearby subway entrance. The people in the park were variously hostile, curious and friendly...